Cultivation by Trial and Error
Chapter 735: 728: Golden Jiao Scissors

Chapter 735: Chapter 728: Golden Jiao Scissors

Above the Nine Heavens, the jade arm that had pierced through the void shrank back in an instant, upon the appearance of the towering purple figure.

Following that, a woman of cold beauty, clad in sumptuous palace attire that seemed both dignified and luxurious, yet also evoked a sense of sacrilege, began to materialize.

This woman was Lady Yu Ji, referred to by Man Li and the Purple-clothed Man, one of the Palace Masters in the Demon Palace.

“Emperor Xuanguang, you are nothing but my former defeat.”

“Though the Golden Jiao Scissors have grown silent, unable to unleash their peak might, I, Lady Yu Ji, am determined to secure this object.”

“You think you can plot against me and obstruct my opportunity?”

The woman’s gaze, solidifying as if tangible, fell from the Nine Heavens, landing directly upon the purple figure below.

Wherever her gaze travelled, a biting cold spread out, transforming the previously cloudless clear sky into one where snowflakes kept drifting from the horizon.

Inside the camp below, the remaining Demon Palace elites and the numerous Immortals from the Immortal Mansion had already ceased fighting.

Ninety-nine percent of these individuals, weak in power and low in status, were completely befuddled, unable to comprehend what the emergence of the coldly beautiful Lady Yu Ji and Emperor Xuanguang meant for them.

The falling snowflakes, seemingly innocuous as they landed on people, would freeze them into ice sculptures the next instant, with the terrifying cold contained within the snow.

A gust of cold wind blew, and with a series of crackling sounds, these ice sculptures shattered into pieces of ice scattered on the ground.

Caught off-guard, at least several hundred had fallen on the spot.

Even more terrifying was that these snowflakes did not discriminate between friend and foe.

Among those several hundred who perished, although the majority were from the Heavenly Mansion, dozens of Demon Palace elites were also eroded by the cold, their Divine Souls utterly destroyed.

It must be known, the Demon Palace elites remaining after the battle had already been reduced to around one or two hundred.

The relentless snowfall had further reduced their numbers by more than a quarter, a true disaster for them.

“Go, escape as far as possible. Hurry back to our Demon Palace territory.”

“With this level of combat, your power is so meager, a graze will wound you, a hit will kill you. You have no right to be involved!”

“We must also hastily leave this place. With the Emperor here, he has his own plans!”

…

Man Li and the few from Wan Zhongshan, who had been locked in endless combat, ceased their fight as soon as Lady Yu Ji and Emperor Xuanguang appeared.

Seeing the heavy casualties beneath the snowflakes, they roared with anger, issuing their orders.

Many of the Immortals below had already started moving before Man Li and his group’s shouts had fully descended.

Transforming into beams of tunneling light, they fled in all directions, and in less than an instant, this entire region was almost completely empty.

Even Man Li and the few Daluo Golden Immortal powerhouses, amid their roaring, shot off and vanished without a trace.

In the current Primordial Land, Quasi-Saints reign as the mightiest.

Those Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals, limited in their experience, might not know just how formidable a Quasi-Saint truly is.

Man Li, and those few from Wan Zhongshan, although they had stepped into the Daluo Realm, seeming to differ from Quasi-Saints by only one Great Realm – precisely because of this, they were acutely aware of just how vast the chasm of strength between a Daluo Golden Immortal and a Quasi-Saint was!

Lady Yu Ji, standing proudly in the void, and Emperor Xuanguang, with feet planted on the earth, were both poised on the edge, ready to engage in battle at any moment.

“Pulled into a war of this magnitude, even Man Li and those from Wan Zhongshan had no assurance that they could escape unscathed.”

“Taking advantage of the fact that Lady Yuji and Emperor Xuanguang were yet to truly commence battle, if they did not hurry and flee, were they waiting to die?”

“Lady Yuji, you shouldn’t have come. Wouldn’t it have been better to stay quietly within your Tao Field?”

“Are you calling me your defeated subordinate? I admit, I have been defeated by you. That’s true.”

“But after thirty years on the east side of the river and thirty more on the west, you should not underestimate me, Emperor Xuanguang.”

“This time, I dare to scheme against you, dare to appear before you because I naturally have the confidence to deal with you!”

With a confident smile spreading across his face, Emperor Xuanguang remained standing with his hands behind his back, as splendid seven-colored rays of light burst forth from around him.

The snowflakes drifting down from the sky, no matter how piercingly cold, would evaporate into mist tens or hundreds of meters away from him.

Unperturbed, he smiled softly and continued, “The Golden Jiao Scissors lie right below my feet, inside the treasure vault. Although they have only revived a small part of their might, they still qualify as a rare Supreme Treasure.”

“Weren’t you determined to possess this item? Come, fight me, and I promise not to kill you!”

As he said this, Emperor Xuanguang’s expression was one of disdain as he casually gestured for Lady Yuji to come closer with a hook of his finger.

“Emperor Xuanguang, you… are courting death…”

Faced with such provocation, Lady Yuji trembled with anger.

Her body, with skin fair as ice and bones pure as jade, suddenly swelled to a height of a thousand meters. With one sweep of her jade palm which covered the heavens, she brought with her a boundless blizzard, aiming it directly at Emperor Xuanguang.

Still appearing calm and composed, Emperor Xuanguang confronted her without showing weakness.

In an instant, the sky darkened, and the sun and moon lost their light.

Gale-force winds, snowstorms, golden light, scorching heat, chilling coldness… filled this entire realm. They could no longer see each other, only sensing the terrifying power fluctuations sweeping away in all directions.

…

Beneath the surface of the Primordial Land, within the Merit Treasure Vault.

This vault, constructed from Gravel Gold Stone and boasting indomitable strength, had already been devastated beyond recognition due only to the residual effects of the battle between Lady Yuji and Emperor Xuanguang.

The walls on all sides of the vault had collapsed by more than half, and fragments of Gravel Gold Stone of various sizes were strewn everywhere.

Over ninety percent of the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures stored in this vault had been reduced directly to dust.

The culprit of this great conflict, a pair of scissors almost as tall as a person and covered in rust despite the bloodstains, had some of the rust cleaned off by the previous encounter.

The scissors’ handle, seemingly formed by intercrossing heads of two jiao dragons, had been cleansed of rust, making them appear strikingly vivid.

However, the blades of the scissors were still covered in rust, looking rather dilapidated.

It was said that the Golden Jiao Scissors were forged by the Sky-reaching Saint using two Innate Jiao dragons and was eventually bestowed upon Lady Sanxiao.

Although these scissors were just an Acquired Spiritual Treasure, just in terms of their might, they possibly far surpassed many Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Of course, legends are just legends, and whether these are indeed facts is something hardly anyone can clarify.

But no one can deny that before their silence, at their peak, the might of the Golden Jiao Scissors was truly extreme.

Above the treasure vault on the surface of the Primordial Land, Lady Yuji and Emperor Xuanguang were fiercely engaged in battle.

Near the Golden Jiao Scissors lying askew on the ground, space lightly rippled, and an oddly shaped object resembling an eyeball emerged from the void.